Posted on 09/12/2006 3:12:05 PM PDT by kingattax
EPHRATA, Wash. (AP) - After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Gary Weddle began following the news so closely he forgot to shave. After a week he decided not to shave until Osama bin Laden had been caught or killed.
Nor has Weddle, 46, who expected the al-Qaida leader to be caught within a month or so, trimmed his facial hair in the succeeding five years as he went from substitute teacher to science instructor at Ephrata Middle School.
At the start of each school year he gives students a brief explanation of his beard, which stretches more than a foot long and has started turning gray.
"I still get emotional over the families who lost loved ones. I just don't feel there's any closure on this until they get that guy," Weddle told The Wenatchee World for an article published Monday. "I don't have to know anyone personally who lost family in 9/11 to understand the devastation that he's responsible for."
His wife Donita hates the beard, while their three daughters, who attend Eastmont High School in East Wenatchee, don't mind and "mostly their boyfriends think it's cool," Weddle said.
He said he would keep the beard, untrimmed, as long as bin Laden remains at large - "even if I get buried with it."
This surely must force the CIA and Musharraf to track down OBL.
I'm going to drink beer and smoke cigars until we get him.
I'm not divorcing her until he is caught.
I'm not stopping my extramarital affair with her untill he is caught.
Are you changing your voter registration status to Democrat also, so you will be in like company?
LOL
And I'm not going anywhere near Modelbreakers or Treblerebel's house anytime soon 'cause their JOINTS are Knockin!!!! (i.e. stinky)
That's nothing. I haven't shaved since 1969. I'm 61 years old. I didn't do it in protest of anything though. I just don't understand the idea of shaving every morning. So I don't.
I do trim my beard every four months or so.
If I didn't shave in 5 years all I would have is a heck of a lot of peach fuzz.
you must be one of those "early adoptor people" cause I'm certain that you are right. If he was alive you would see him in a video- like Castro walking on water - or his hospital floor for those in Rio Linda.
OK. OK. I'll take out the trash but I draw the line at the dishwasher. No bin laden. No dishes.
Easy, man. We'll get bin laden centuries before that happens.
I'm not reading this thread till he's caught!
Helen Thomas won't shave until bin Laden is caught.
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